Dame Liz Forgan, today boldly stated her confidence in a reinvigorated Arts Council and our new approach to funding the arts.
In a keynote speech she commended the extraordinary contribution the arts make to our national life.
‘Ours is a nation of burgeoning creativity. Our artists, musicians, actors, directors, sculptors, acrobats, writers, dreamers and inventors are as precious a resource as North Sea oil or the coalfields, and they are a lot more renewable and enduring.’
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